* Are enterprises ready for end-to-end wireless LANs? * Good intentions, bad laws * Why wireless LANs will succeed * Sparks fly at IP PBX showdown
Are enterprises ready for end-to-end wireless LANs?
Network World’s latest Face-Off tackles one of the most debated issues in networking: Are enterprise companies ready for wireless LANs? Vernier Networks CTO Doug Klein argues that they are ready, and that the technology is ready for them. But Merwyn Andrade, director of technology at Aruba Wireless Networks, says that the obstacles are currently too great. Read both sides, then jump into the forum with your views.
Yes
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/0407faceoffyes.html?vo
No
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/0407faceoffno.html?vo
Forum
https://www.nwfusion.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=307
Good intentions, bad laws
Mark Gibbs and Scott Bradner this week both exercise their First Amendment rights by voicing their discontent with existing and proposed laws dealing with digital media. How will they affect IT?
Gibb’s Backspin
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/0407backspin.html?vo
Bradner’s ‘Net Insider
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/0407bradner.html?vo
Why wireless LANs will succeed
Industry watcher Frank Dzubeck this week responds to reader e-mail about his column earlier this year, which pointed to voice over wireless LANs as a killer app. Readers raised issues – Dzubeck answers with possible solutions.
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/0407dzubeck.html?vo
Sparks fly at IP PBX showdown
You might not think IP PBXs would make for an interesting debate topic – but that’s only because you weren’t at last week’s showdown at the Voice on the Net conference in San Jose. Network World Editor-in-Chief John Dix gives the play-by-play on the vendor contest.
